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The charters of freedom : "a new world is at hand" : based on an exhibition in the National Archives rotunda for the charters of freedom / Stacey Bredhoff ; with a foreword by John W. Carlin.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks CD 3024 .B74 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bredhoff, Stacey, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Archives (U.S.)--Exhibitions.
- National Archives (U.S.).
- United States. Declaration of Independence--Exhibitions.
- United States.
- United States--Constitution--Exhibitions.
- United States. Constitution--1st-10th Amendments--Exhibitions.
- Constitution (United States).
- Declaration of Independence (United States).
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- New world is at hand
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Foundation for the National Archives in association with D Giles Ltd., [2004]
- Contents:
- From loyal subjects to traitorous rebels
- a royal proclamation
- Courage of the founders
- the perilous road to independence
- spirit of the revolution
- the Declaration of Independence
- first constitution
- the Articles of Confederation
- Slavery and the American Revolution
- voices of protest
- Constitutional Convention
- creating the constitution
- Bill of Rights
- the first ten amendments to the Constitution
- charters of freedom
- power of the courts
- Marbury v. Madison
- Westward expansion
- the Louisiana Purchase
- Civil War
- the union sealed in blood
- end of slavery in the United States
- the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth amendment
- United States as a beacon of liberty
- immigration
- Expansion of rights and liberties
- the right of suffrage
- Global impact of the charters of freedom.
- Notes:
- "The exhibition, "A new world is at hand," opened in the rotunda of the National Archives building on September 17, 2003. The documents flanking the permanent display of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights are changed periodically in the interest of their long-term preservation."--Page [7].
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781904832027
- 1904832024
- 9780975860106
- 0975860100
- OCLC:
- 57359679
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